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Abolish the IRS? Defiant Agency Chief Tells Congress to Shove It
Pajamas Media ^ | 04/01/2015 | Michael Walsh

Posted on 04/01/2015 9:52:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

John Koskinen, the strange, David Icke-like lizard person currently in charge of the Internal Revenue Service, has told Congress to forget about abolishing the agency:

The IRS commissioner on Tuesday brushed aside GOP proposals to abolish his agency, insisting the U.S. would have to have a tax collector one way or another. “You can call them something other than the IRS if that made you feel better,” the agency’s chief, John Koskinen, said after a speech at the National Press Club.

Republicans have heaped even more criticism upon the agency than usual over the last 22 months because of its improper scrutiny of Tea Party groups. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) perhaps has made the most prominent calls to get rid of the IRS. While launching his presidential bid earlier in March, he floated the idea of “a simple flat tax that lets every American fill out his or her taxes on a postcard. Imagine abolishing the IRS,” he added.

Koskinen said Tuesday that, even under the simplest of tax codes, the federal government would need an agency to collect revenue and administer the tax code, something Cruz’s own aides have also admitted. “Somebody has to collect the money, and then somebody also has to make sure when you fill in the small card, you’re putting in the right numbers,” Koskinen said.

Not if we repeal the 16th amendment, we don’t.

But Koskinen also said he understands why politicians seek to tap into public anger at the IRS. Conservatives have become increasingly angry at the IRS because of the Tea Party controversy, but Koskinen insisted that an overly complicated tax code spurred much of the anger at his agency.

“I think that’s a lot of what’s behind, you know, ‘get rid of the IRS.’ It’s really ‘get rid of this complicated tax code.’ And to that extent, I think that’s a reasonable goal,” Koskinen said.

So what’s stopping us? Only the entrenched interests of the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party, that’s what.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abolishirs; congress; irs; irsscandals; johnkoskinen; koskinen
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To: itsahoot

Well if you are special , as Sharpton is, then you get special treatment.


61 posted on 04/01/2015 12:54:54 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Kevin in California

How arrogant this guy is! No one wants to mess with him, because he can sic the auditors, and he knows it and they know it.


62 posted on 04/01/2015 1:12:10 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The IRS commissioner is perennially the most likely to have that challenge answered with “Bend over, buttercup.” Tell me he knew.

(By the way, lulz at Koskinen as an Icke lizard.)


63 posted on 04/01/2015 1:15:51 PM PDT by RichInOC ("Hi. I'm from the federal government and I'm here to..." (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: freedomfiter2

Bullsh!t


64 posted on 04/01/2015 1:56:48 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s wrong. A simple flat tax can be collected by banks and wired straight to the Treasury.

Idiot.


65 posted on 04/01/2015 1:58:58 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The GOP is dead to me! McConnell and Boehner can drop dead!!)
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66 posted on 04/01/2015 2:10:33 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Amendment10
Yes, the Framers took it for granted that all men in government are rogues, and they designed a government around that truism proved correct by history.

AND, after ratification the American Republic continued to improve itself. Between 1789 and prior to 1913, we fine tuned our constitution for the better.

1791. Ten Amendments which acknowledged some God-given and societal rights.
1865. An amendment that eliminated the British imposed institution of slavery.
1868. The 14th Amendment that reinforced personal and societal rights guaranteed in the Declaration and Bill of Rights.

1913 marked the formal invasion of progressivism into the apogee of the Enlightenment, our constitution.

Why is it so tough to sell freedom, the need to return to our republican roots?

67 posted on 04/01/2015 2:13:07 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: ctdonath2

Bttt


68 posted on 04/01/2015 2:36:33 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Robe

“This guy needs a good old fashioned A$$ whoopin Harry Redi style...”

Junior-high-school, adolescent, psychotics usually do.

IMHO


69 posted on 04/01/2015 4:02:14 PM PDT by ripley
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To: SeekAndFind

we could also call it 20 times smaller :-)


70 posted on 04/01/2015 4:04:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Jacquerie

don’t blame acceptance of slavery on the british... it could have been written out of the new constitution and wasn’t


71 posted on 04/01/2015 4:05:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s way past time for the IRS to be humbled, and replaced.


72 posted on 04/01/2015 4:24:36 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The framers could have prohibited toe fungus as easily.

The shift key is for your use to capitalize the first letter of sentences. Don’t blame the British for your not doing so.


73 posted on 04/01/2015 5:14:02 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Doogle

It’s an evil Elmer Fudd.


74 posted on 04/01/2015 7:39:16 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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